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Zhen Wang, Ph.D., studies how current best medical evidence can be used to help patients, health care providers, policy makers and researchers make informed decisions about care and delivery of health services. Specifically, he is interested in evidence-based medicine, systematic review, meta-analysis and methods of improving systematic reviews.

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Evidence-based medicine

Systematic review and meta-analysis

Methodology of systematic review

Significance to patient care

With rapidly growing medical literature, patients are inundated with unmanageable and, sometimes, conflicting information. Making clinical decisions based on one or a few selective studies can be misleading and potentially dangerous. Dr. Wang's work identifies, appraises and synthesizes research evidence from medical literature and presents it in ways that are patient centered, transparent and accessible by patients.

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